Alex Flinn Quotes
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
